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Gypsy
Opened 1959
702 performances
Musical, Golden Age
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother." It follows the dreams and efforts of Rose to raise two daughters to perform onstage and casts an affectionate eye on the hardships of show business life.
"perhaps the greatest Broadway musical of all time, Gypsy.": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Jule Styne
- Lyrics
- Stephen Sondheim
- Book
- Arthur Laurents
Productions10 productions: 8 on Broadway, 2 in the West End
Songs19 songs
Some People, Let Me Entertain You, Small World, Little Lamb, You’ll Never Get Away from Me, If Momma Was Married, All I Need Is the Girl, Everything’s Coming Up Roses, Together, You Gotta Have a Gimmick, Rose’s Turn, May We Entertain You, Traveling, Baby June and Her Newsboys, Mr. Goldstone, I Love You, Dainty June and Her Farmboys, Madame Rose’s Toreadorables, Together, Wherever We Go, You Gotta Get a Gimmick
Recordings 18 recordings
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
'That afternoon she performed the show with the fevered pitch of Ethel Merman in Gypsy, rather than as the vulnerable lady the character was meant to be.'
The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 187Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.